Cover Story
Jumping the Shark on Women’s Health
For the sake of anti-abortion politics, the governor and the Legislature turned their backs on women’s health care – with disastrous consequences. Is there any way to fix this mess?
The AggreGAYtor: January 24
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
Third Annual Good Food Awards Presented in San Francisco
Austin companies bring home the gold again
The Fearless James Hong
Star of ‘Big Trouble in Little China’ revives the raunch
Property Tax Deadline Approaching
Monthly payment plans are available
Oye Come Va
Ex-Santana/Journey singer Gregg Rolie charms the One World
Rain, Rain, Come Today
Okay Mountain hosts release party for ‘It Rained All Day’
The Making of a ‘Big Shot’
Cheer Up Charlie’s premieres Christeene’s startling new video
Don’t Take Valentine’s Day Too Seriously
New supper club celebrating the opposite of hearts and roses
Sundance ’13: Day Four
‘Computer Chess’ and ‘Pit Stop’ are true originals
Home’s a Brewin’: Beer News
So much win
‘Justified’ Recap: ‘Truth and Consequences’
Handling snakes and secrets can be dangerous
Austin Songwriter Symposium
Keynote Eliza Gilkyson leads the ‘Beauty Way’
Sinnerfold Delivers a Whammy
Texas Rollergirls pay tribute to smartest, toughest and fastest
Dismantling Alamo South Lamar
The iconic sign comes down… for now
Bid to Reschedule Pot Denied by Federal Court
Pot-law reformers to seek rehearing
Arts+Labor Lenses Sundance Webisodes
Video snapshots of production house’s fest so far
Local Game Studio Vigil to Close
A victim of parent company THQ’s bankruptcy
Election 2014 Begins as Senate Draws Lots
Term lengths allocation starts to reshape plans for higher office
The AggreGAYtor: January 23
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
‘The NFL Beat’: Spinal Stenosis
What will this condition mean for Jarvis Jones’ career?
Amado Pardo, Patriarch of Jovita’s, Dead at 64
He would have faced federal drug charges in a February trial
‘The Taste’ Recap
The first nibble of ABC’s unsavory new cooking competition
Two Gentlemen of Japan
Young chefs bring an element of Japanese culture to a Texas town
A Flood of Funny
Moontower Comedy has released its first roster of comics
DVD Watch: ‘Fat Kid Rules the World’
Matthew Lillard’s directorial debut has a big heart
Carson McHone
And her homegrown curve-ball edge to songwriting
MLK All the Way
Over 10,000 folks came out to manifest Dr. King’s vision
Classic Comedy Sketches Come Back to Life at the Alamo Ritz
Local troupes re-enact faves from SNL, Monty Python, Mr. Show, and more
The AggreGAYtor: January 22
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‘The Voice in My Head’
Psyche!? Fake dead girlfriend breaks Internet.
Jerusalem: A Cookbook
by Yotam Ottolenghi and Sami Tamimi
Foreign Mothers
Paper Cuts, January 22, 2013 at the Palm Door
Meet the Cheesemaker Series Kicks Off at Antonelli’s
Intimate setting offers hospitality, flavor, and information
Patagonia Rocks
Sportswear store inhabits the former Vulcan Gas Company
Roe Turns 40
And fight over legal abortion rages on
‘Downton Abbey’ Watch
Lady problems
Finding the Funny in Serious Music
When Igudesman & Joo play classical, they really play
Sundance ’13: Day Three
Texas brings the party
Short Story Contest Update
Of the 410 total entries, we’re down to 10
The Senate Committee Shuffle
Austin’s four Senators get their appointments for 2013
Wayne White’s Big Art Adventure Arrives on TV Tonight
‘Beauty Is Embarrassing’ doc debuts on PBS at 9pm
The AggreGAYtor: January 21
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Antone’s Is Relocating
Historic ‘Home of the Blues’ will vacate Fifth Street
The Q&A Hole: Why Would Anyone Buy a CD These Days?
With Guy Forsyth, Wren Anderson, Chad Nichols, Luna Tart, and more
The Price of 1,000 Songs
‘Ordinary Peephole’ celebrates the delights of songwriter Dick Price
Bill of the Week: Laying Pipe Across the State
Texas spending money on infrastructure? Not impossible.
Sundance ’13: Day Two
Austin-connected films abound and I jump in with ‘A Teacher’
Dudes in Drag Shake Speedy Cocktails for Charity, Part 2
Rowdy event raises cash for breast cancer awareness
A Visit with Madame Cocoa
Local chocolate maven loves to share her knowledge
More Things in ‘Heaven and Earth’
Fidencio Duran opens a new solo exhibition at the MACC
From the Vaults: Ahnuld’s Director’s American Debut
Looking back at our Q&A with ‘Last Stand’ director Kim Jee-woon
It’s a Jungle Out There For Runners
Watch out for the Gorilla Run on Saturday morning
Hill’s Cafe Review
South Austin mainstay offers good food, good value
The AggreGAYtor: January 18
Your daily dose of LGBTQIA news
Actually Making It Better
HRC joins LifeWorks in helping LGBT homeless youth
Some Local Bartenders Wanna Have a Word With You
Because the comedians at ColdTowne are putting them onstage
Two Beats Hearting As One
English Beat singer Dave Wakeling skanks good karma
Sundance ’13: Day One
Marjorie Baumgarten kicks off the festival with a song in her heart
What They Can’t Take Away From Me (and Lance)
How many PEDs did it take to make us care about a bike race?
Farmers Market Report: Jan. 19-20
Perfect farmers market weather!
Swearingen Seeks DNA Testing
Execution scheduled for late February
Divya Srinivasan Is Livingthe Dream of Art
The multimedia creator’s work wakes a world’s imagination
Treat Yo Self
Angel Donuts & Treats tempts Cedar Park residents and students with devilish delights
Soccer Watch
Former Aztex Kekuta Manneh looks to go high in MLS SuperDraft, and more
Seethamma Vakitlo Sirimalle Chettu
This new Telugu film tells a story of brotherly rivalry.
Jogging Toward March
SXSW Film announces opening night film, Texas Film Hall of Fame picks 2013 inductees
Other People’s Songs
Picture ‘Friday Night Lights’ beauty Dana Wheeler-Nicholson singing for the president
Quote of the Week
“The administration does not support blowing up planets.” – Paul Shawcross, chief of the Science and Space Branch at the White House Office of Management and Budget, politely rejecting a WhiteHouse.gov petition to build a Star Wars-style Death Star
A Haunted House
Marlon Wayans spoofs Paranormal Activity.
Invisible, Inc.
The Hidden Room Theatre’s impressive new show is both a play about magic and a performance of magic
Playback: 2012-2013 Music Poll Ballot
Vote your local music conscience
Civics 101
Thursday 17 MONEY ≠ SPEECH CITY COUNCIL RESOLUTION RALLY to support a Council resolution “calling for a Constitutional Amendment and/or other legislative actions ensuring that money is not speech, and therefore the expenditure of money to influence the electoral or legislative process is not a form of constitutionally protected speech, and shall be regulated.” 4-6pm.…
The Last Stand
Arnold Schwarzenegger plunges back into acting in this full-bore action vehicle helmed by the South Korean director Kim Jee-Woon.
Elizabeth: Heart of a King
Lorella Loftus’ ambitious new bio-play boasts strong performances by the three women portraying the Virgin Queen
LegeLines
Odds and ends from the Capitol
Headlines
� City Council meets today (Jan. 17) with some leftovers – zoning battles, including the Downtown Austin Hotel brouhaha – and some talk about affordable housing, Citizens United, and 2012’s spike in traffic fatalities. For more, see “Council Notes: Funky Illuminations,” and “Hotel Project Sparks Downtown Skirmish.” � If today is Thursday, disgraced local cycling…
Broken City
Mark Wahlberg and Russell Crowe mix it up in this mystery thriller directed by Allen Hughes.
Austin Symphony Orchestra With Yefim Bronfman
Yefim Bronfman played his way through the expansive territory of Brahms with masterful command
Hotel Project Sparks Downtown Skirmish
A proposed hotel complex at Eighth and Congress has had a particularly dramatic saga en route to Council
Point Austin: Welcome to the Madhouse
The Keller day care fiasco and the madness of crowds
Guns & Ammo … and Austin Politics
The state of gun control in Travis County
Then There’s This: Southland
Seven neighborhoods take Imagine Austin on a test run
Studio Visits: William Heath (aka Billy Beasty)
In an Eastside home, a consummate collaborator lives with the detritus of spectacular gestures
Hightower Report: Why Is It So Dark at This Time of Year?
It’s scary to see so many 5-watt bulbs in 100-watt sockets
Appeal Filed for Fran Keller: The Oak Hill Daycare ‘Ritual Abuse’ Fiasco
Appeal cites outdated medical evidence and Brady violation
Malaise and Methodology
Ann Cvetkovich crafts a radical approach to considering depression
Council Notes: Funky Illuminations
On corporate influence, 24-hour hiking, and affordable housing
Pie-o-Neers for Peace
Peace Through Pie initiative going forward one school at a time
Board Discord on Single-Sex Schools
Little consensus leading up to Jan. 29 vote
After a Fashion: Hobnobbing
So, where should Your Style Avatar cram all these daisies he was supposed to be pushing up by now?
10-1, Step One: Finding Commissioners
The public comment period on the new districting process was extended a week for more input
Theatre Thinker
In the online dialogue about the art of the stage, Travis Bedard is a star
Free Week Live Shots Part 2
Shakey Graves The Parish, Jan. 9 As the Parish stage lights silhouette Shakey Graves, his pose comes into relief: legs bent, stance fixed, large-bodied guitar slung high on his rail-thin frame with the neck angled slightly toward the heavens. On his head, a crisply bent cowboy hat. He looks a little like Townes Van Zandt…
Texas vs. Planned Parenthood
On Jan. 11, after a daylong hearing, Travis County Judge Stephen Yelenosky denied Planned Parenthood a temporary injunction, allowing the state to continue operating, for now, the state-funded Texas Women’s Health Program that excludes the nonprofit. Although the judge agreed that “probable injury” to Planned Parenthood and its clients may result, that is not enough…
Free Week Live Shots Part 2
Whiskey Shivers, Guns of Navarone, Holiday Style, Slowtrain, Wiretree Holy Mountain, Jan. 10 As bespectacled local quartet Wiretree warms up, the crowd inside Red River revival Holy Mountain counts rather sparse on this cold Thursday evening. A blink later and the former Beauty Bar, now reconfigured, is packed save for a two-foot space around the…
The Luv Doc: Contagion
Dear LuvDoc, My workplace is mostly cubicles and it seems that every day one or more of my co-workers come to work sick. What is wrong with people?! This is supposed to be the worst flu season in years, and all around me people are sneezing and coughing. They all either claim that they either…
Restaurant Review
Melvin, a slightly off-kilter couple that excels at making some of Austin’s best sandwiches
Free Week Live Shots Part 2
Riverboat Gamblers, East Cameron Folkcore, American Sharks Mohawk, Jan. 11 “We’re called American Sharks. You don’t mind if we start off with some fast rock & roll, do you?” So asked the burly Mike Hardin before the local trio exploded into a tsunami that left nothing but blood in the water from all the headbanging.…
Mama
Jessica Chastain stars in this spook tale that’s rife with unsettling atmosphere.
Mr. Smarty Pants Knows
93 percent of all people ever born have died. The UK still has 13,000 black-and-white TVs, according to the TV Licensing authority. Extreme décolletage was well-received in the English court throughout the 1620s, and returned to haute couture in the 1680s, too. Woodcuts of Queen Mary II, who took the throne in 1689, show the…
Food Events
� Warm Saké and a Movie begins with a demo on how to warm sake, followed by a presentation from their Toji on the Texas rice used to make their product. Kids can play in a bouncy fort, Fresh Off the Truck will sell food, and guests can relax in their own lawn chairs to…
Free Week Live Shots Part 2
Psychedelic Light & Sound Does Free Week Hotel Vegas, Jan. 12 Local promotion entity Psychedelic Light & Sound put its motto of “a festival designed to overload the senses” to the test with this sprawling, 12-hour lineup. The improvisational ambience of Lattice, Cream-y power trio traditionalism of Pi, and Wolfmother worship of Fort Worth’s Sonic…
Rust and Bone
The unlikely relationship between two damaged souls is made deeply palpable by the stunning performances of Oscar-winner Marion Cotillard and rising star Matthias Schoenaerts.
Goodbye to This Millennium’s Must-See TV
How ’30 Rock’ reshaped the sitcom for the digital age
Wine of the Week
Winery offers affordable variation of its Sauvignon Blanc
Day Trips
Quirky coffee shop has more than a good cup o’ joe
Matru ki Bijlee ka Mandola
A greedy businessman aims to convert his village’s farms into a modern shopping center in this Bollywood romantic comedy with a political bent.
Further Reading: ‘The Revolution Was Televised’
The millennial dramas: What HBO wrought
Food-O-File
Is it “Goodnight” for iconic Hill’s Cafe?
Gay Place: BUSTIN’ OUT ALL OVER
January’s bustin’ out all over
Mumbai Mirror
In this Bollywood film, powerful and corrupt club owners have dubious connections with the Mumbai police.
